Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students not in the direst sort of need, Harvard must take the responsibility of deciding when such need exists. Conceivably, she might be asked to defend a decision before the national government. But surely adequate machinery exists; Harvard's scholarship committee, under Russell T. Sharpe, is organized in exemplary fashion. And decisions correctly made can be defended before any tribunal...
...four ribs broken, a twisted knee, two shiners. It was by accident that he upset Toronto's "Ace" Bailey in 1933, fracturing his skull, but his reputation was against him. He drew a 46-day suspension, spent most of it gloomily in Bermuda, praying in his own fashion for "Ace" to live...
...point out organs he was dissecting. "A lecture on the liver ... he transformed into a subject of vital interest by ... references to bearbaiting and cockfighting, football and the ballet, and a strange bird in his Majesty's aviary. . . . Then he would conclude with a spirited attack on the fashion of lacing young girls till their waists were compressed . . . and their livers were fantastically deformed...
...When I was at Harvard it had been the fashion to live in ugly frame houses which lined the streets off Massachusetts Avenue . . . . now that the entire academic scene had changed I did not feel at home," relates Marquand's fictional Harvard alumnus in "Wickford Point...
...carry on a lengthy European conflict. If Germany and Italy are to challenge the world, they must establish a firm hegemony over the entire area lying between the Third Reich and Russia. The chances of the creation of such a totalitarian dominion, Mr. Hutton evaluates in bold, logical fashion...